Re: Can't mount CD-ROM(s)

From: Todd Hobdey (thobdey_at_americanecologydotcom.com)
Date: 05/17/04 

Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 11:34:42 -0600

Sadly, that didn't work. I see that the current kernel is e40, but like I
said I'm really new to Linux and this has me a little nervous. I'm trying
to use up2date to get whatever patches I need, but it's stuck at 0%.

"Stephan Wonczak" <wonczak@Uni-Koeln.DE> wrote in message
news:40A48378.DC04B75@Uni-Koeln.DE...
> Hi Todd!
>
> Todd Hobdey wrote:
> >
> > I've got three RH AS 2.1 servers, running on two different model of Dell
> > PowerEdge servers (inherited - I recently started with this company)
with
> > kernel 2.4.9-e.24.
>
> You may want to upgrade that kernel; it contains a serious bug in
> ext3-code, which bit us several times. Current is e40, by the way.
>
> > On all three of them I've tried mounting two different
> > CDs - APC PowerChute and TapeWare. All three of them give the message:
> >
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
> > or too many mounted file systems
> > (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
> > ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
> >
> > I'm new to Linux, so bear with me. I'll use info from the one system in
> > particular I'm trying to work with right now. fstab has an entry of:
> >
> > /dev/cdrom /mnnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> >
> > ls -l /dev/cdrom returns:
> >
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 21 2003 /dev/cdrom ->
> > /dev/hde
> >
> > /proc/ide/hde/model properly shows this as a GCR-8481B cd-rom drive. df
> > only returns 8 entries, so I highly doubt there's "too many mounted file
> > systems". /mnt/cdrom exists.
> >
> > I know both CDs are good because they mount right up using Fedora Core 1
> > running in a Microsoft Virtual PC session on my PC. fstab in FC1 lists
> > "udf,iso9660" so I thought I'd try "mount -t udf /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom";
no
> > luck.
> >
> > I'm getting VERY frustrated as I REALLY need to get this software
installed.
> > Any thoughts?
>
> Yep, I have found that mount is picky about mounting CDs without the
> 'ro'-Option, which you have done in your command. You can try either of
> these two variants, both should work:
>
> mount /mnt/cdrom
>
> (this uses the line in /etc/fstab)
>
> mount -t udf /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom -o ro
>
> (telling explicitly to mount read-only, which of course is only sensible
> for a CD... :-) )
>
> HTH
>
>
> --
> C U, Stephan
>
> "I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it."
> "The meaning of my life is to make me crazy"

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